While there are many beautiful and commendable facets to present-day Israel, one thing I believe the state is getting wrong is in the style and substance of its domestic political system.
In present-day Africa, the polite thing to do upon seeing a pale-faced interloper like oneself is to look off vacantly into the distance, sort of like if you were driving in your home country and you cut somebody off, and then the person you cut off pulled up alongside you at the next light.
But many present-day readers can recognize things in this marvelous tale.
But it is the Halabja Monument, clearly visible from the dusty highway, that links the city to the regional hub of Sulaymaniyah, which is arguably the most symbolic piece of remembrance for the present-day city and the things that are still happening to it.
But the political discussions we were having – in particular about how the wishes of working-class employees could be more creatively taken into account – were about important things, things that, disastrously, present-day politicians disdain to address.
There is one thing about present-day Cuba that unfailingly leaves visiting Americans awestruck: the sight of streets filled with 1950's Chevrolets, Buicks, Fords, Chryslers and Cadillacs, some as well-maintained as those in the hands of vintage car collectors in the United States.
"I would do a present-day version of the same thing," she said.
Zimmermann's account shows how cultural differences can be integrated into STS research, and how sinologists can turn their attention from ancient texts and traditional art to everyday things in present-day China.
Present-day research is stimulated, among other things, by problems associated with multiple-user computer systems.
He would make things happening in present-day New York, for example, relevant to the Mahabharata – and he would tell them in such a phenomenal way.
